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What is Great Britain
Where the Industrial revolution first spread
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What is England
What European country did the United States spy on for industrial advances
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Who is Thomas Edison
Man who invented the lightbulb
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What is interchangeable parts
Identical parts that can be used in place of one another
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What is 1800's
What century did this chapter take place?
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What is textile, steam
The rapid advances in the ______ industry, as well as the development of ______ power created a strong British economy.
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What is anesthetic
Horace Wells, the dentist, first used _______ as a drug to stop pain?
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Who is Albert Einstein
This famous German physicist revolutionized physics with his theory of relativity
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What is Transcontinental
Across a contintental
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What is the telephone
Alexander Bell invented the?
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What is Germany
________ became a major industrial nation by the late 1800’s with strong electrical and chemical industries.
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What is Coal and iron ore
What two resources did the United States have that allowed them to use the Bessemer process?
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What is steel
_______ output increased and helped other industries expand
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What is protective tariff
A tax put on imported goods to encourage consumers to buy those same goods from their own counrty
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What is colonialism
The rule of foreign territory for economic and military power
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What is Belgium, France, and Germany
Except for the United States, the first nations to industrialize after the British were countries located nearby, what is one?
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What is the across-the-continent railroad
The transcontinental Railroad is also known as?
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What is Bessemer
Making steel became known as the _____ process
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What is colonialism
The rule of a foreign territory for economic fain and military power
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What is east to west
The transcontinental railroad went from the ___ coast to the ____ coast
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What is France
The _________ offered large rewards to spies who could provide them with information about new industrial technology.
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Who are Samuel Slater and Moss Brown
What were the names of the two business men who made a cotton thread factory in America?
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X-rays
What did Wilhelm Roentgen discover
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What is industrialrialization
The large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
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What is Alva
What was Thomas Edison's middle name?
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